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Making every part of your painting worth looking at

If your aim is to provide a painting with focal point, you must also make sure that the rest of the piece is worth exploring. You can create subtlety with layers, partially obscured shapes, and lines. Add small, perhaps paler, shapes that echo the dominant shape. If the focal point is heavily textured, have other areas lesser texture that are nevertheless interesting. Experiment with neutrals which have undertone of color.

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Spring Pastel

Spring is a time of rebirth, with cool, fresh days becoming increasingly warm. new growth consists of bright fresh, acidic greens and yellows, which tend to cunter event overcast days. Pastel is ideal for this type of landscape work, because the colors are bright and kept fresh by direct marks, and by minimal mixing and layering. The cool, green pastel support is sympathetic to the subject, and lends an underlying color harmony to the work.

Hue

Hue is simply another name for color. Red, yellow, and orange are all hues. Lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, and gamboge, all being yellow, are close in hue to each other.

Tint

A tint is a color that is mixed with white or, as is the case with watercolor, lightened by adding increasing amounts of water. The tinted range of any one color can run from the pure color at its maximum intensity through to white.

Shade

A shade describes a hue or color that has been darkened by mixing in a dark color like black or a second color, usually its complementary. This should not alter the color drastically, only darken, it. Like tints, the range of possible shades runs into hundreds, and stretches from the pure color through to black.

Tone

Tone describes a color's relative lightness or darkness, and is a term that can be used to describe both a tint and a shade. Lemon yellow is light in tone, while indigo is dark in tone - but if you add enough white to indigo, the resulting tint will be closer in tone to lemon yellow.

Value

This is another term that describes the lightness or darkness of a color. Lemon yellow has light value, while indigo has dark value. Value should not be confused with brightness (or intensity)

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The Medium is a Message

As you know it a line is a line is a line...or not. Every drawing and painting tool makes characteristic marks and affords a designer a specific kind of a visual language. The language of the tool has a powerful effect on an illustration's communicative value, not just on its visual qualities relative to other elements in a design solution.

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ALL ABOUT ACRYLIC PAINTING PIGMENTS

THE FINEST quality pigments are used in the

production of artist-grade acrylic colors. To

begin, powdered pigments are dispersed into

water. Through varying methods (depending on

the manufacturer's equipment), the hydrophobic

pigment is forced into a homogenous mixture

with deionized water. The water molecules

surround the pigment, resulting in the formation

of an aqueous pigment dispersion, which is

then ready to be added to the acrylic paint

base. In the mixing vessel, a specially machined

stainless steel blade spins the mixture together.

The blade stirs the paint while the sides of the

vessel are continuously scraped to prevent the

edges from drying out and to ensure uniform

mixing. The blades are carefully machined to

mix varying paint formats and to accommodate

different mixing bucket sizes. Then, the additional

ingredients are added to the mix: surfactant,

defoamer, thickener, freeze/thaw stabilizer, fungi cide,

pH stabilizer, and biocide.

Each of these components is essential to the stability, longevity

end bacterial resistance of the finished product.

Once the paint has thickened and the ingredients

are fully merged, It is inspected by quality control

before being packaged. The quality control

procedures generally include comparing the new

paint with the standard (physical sample) for

color concentration, viscosity, and pH balance.

Once approved, the paint is poured into large

stainless steel hoppers attached to the tubing

and jarring machinery. The air- or machinedriven

mechanism pushes the paint from the

hopper into plastic jars, or metal or plastic tubes.

(Only small quantities of high viscosity paint are

packaged in tubes; quantities upwards of 4 or

5 fluid ounces are packaged in jars and pails.)

Then, the machine's many jaws crimp the ends

tightly to seal the tubes. All of the machinery

and tools used in the packaging of acrylics are

carefully washed and sanitized prior to filling to

prevent contamination from color to color.

Once packaged and sealed, most acrylics will

have a shelf life of six to ten years or longer.

Best tips on Hanging Art Paintings

Use these simple rules to create a functional interior design when hanging art:

1. When selecting a frame for art, coordinate it with the art, not the room. Frames should complement the artwork and allow it to be a focal point of the interior design.

2. If the work comes with a wire on the back, use a picture hanger and a nail of the appropriate weight. If there is not a wire and the art is heavy, you’ll need a picture hanger on each side to balance the weight. And while I love a Command strip for hanging temporary or very light pieces, never hang important or heavier framed items from them. I’ve seen too many people ruin great art that way.

3. Framing and hanging a group, series, or collection of art can be time consuming, but it makes a statement. When hanging the group, think of the collection as one large piece, then place the center of the group 60 to 66 inches from the floor. Also, in most cases, allow no more than 4 inches between individual pieces in a pairing or grouping.

4. Mixing styles and media in a room, or even in one group, can work beautifully. Try to group pieces that have a common thread, such as subject matter, the medium, the color palette, or the period. And be sure that the frames match or complement one another.

5. When hanging art over furniture, place everything close together so it looks cohesive when you enter a room. A good rule of thumb is to allow 6 inches or less between the art and the top of the furniture. Of course, use your judgement so people won’t hit their heads or knock into art when they sit or stand.

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Q: Hi Pete Thank you for the very inspiring lessons I would like to know if you are having the canvas on a table og if you are uing an asel. The very wet painting never run down the canvas when you paint. Also how long does it really take you to make the paintings....not just 10-20 minuts I think :o Bedst regards Birgit Andersen

A: Q: I would like to know if you are having the canvas on a table or if you are uing an asel. A: I usually have small canvases layed on the table and larger ones either on the floor or on the wall. Q: Also how long does it really take you to make the paintings A: it depends on the size of the painting and difficulty of the composition

Q: Is there a way to sort through the website for paintings and see only 36 x 48 or larger Thank you James

Q: How do you draft your ideas Or do you even sketch and just go straight to painting Because your type of art is what I like to paint or at least would like to. Im use to being a perfectionist in my art but i dont want that. I want to challenge myself and just paint and plan as I go. How do you do it

A: I would have a blurry idea of what I would like to paint and after choosing the colors I would outline the subject first if need be or just begin with the background colors and add elements as I go along

Q: Hi there I sent my e-mail to get your free videos but the link you sent does not work please send me another one. I love your paintings and the way you do it thanks for sharing.

A: I have tried to email you back but your email blocks all incoming emails because the way your email is set up. This is the message I got when I tried to email you: Your email could not be delivered because the recipient is only accepting email from specific email addresses.

Q: Saw you on youtube and then checked out your site. Amazing Art! Do you make custom artwork? We are looking for an abstract painting in shades of purple, maybe with some brown . If so, what would be the costs? Iit would be for a large wall and we are open to ideas about one large piece or two or three pieces that go together. Look forward to your reply.

A: Q:When you use a spatula, is it best to use heavy body paint and with a sponge, use soft body? - A: I only use soft body acrylics. Q: And should I be using a dry sponge, because I'm getting bubbles in my paint? Best regards - A: rinse the sponge periodically in clean water

Q: Peter, when you use a spatula, is it best to use heavy body paint? And do you use soft body paint for the sponge technique? Best regards. Jason

A: Q: when you use a spatula, is it best to use heavy body paint? A: it really depends on your personal preference Q: do you use soft body paint for the sponge technique? A: I personally prefer to work with soft body acrylics

A: please go to How It Works page on my other website at abstractartlesson.com and watch the tutorial video that will explain everything in details

Q: I am an artist myself, and I am interested in developing an affiliate website related to art and,more specifically, to abstract expressionist art. Do you have or would you be interested in affiliate marketing for your products? Jay Clapper

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Q: Hi Pete. I love your art and i have watched your videos over and over again. Thank you for making these videos. I wonder if it is ok to use gesso for the white color in my paintings. Do you ever do that

A: I do not substitute gesso for the colors but I don't see the reason why not to try and experiment with it.

Q: Hi Pete..your painting has inspired me a lot..i am a beginner in painting and want to do abstract..i tried painting with acryllic but they do not come out as yours. Could you please help me by telling what are the kind of paints and other materials that you use. Thanks a ton

A: I prefer to use liquitex acrylic paint on primed stretched canvas. I also utilize sponge, brushes, wired brushes, glass, paper, anything that you can think of in order to achieve an eye catching acrylic abstract effect

Q: sirhow can i post my paintings to you in your http:abstractoriginalblogspot.com

A: Good question, I would say first thing is to experiment with shapes, values, and other elements of a drawing or a painting distorting the appearance playing with the compositions getting them to appear abstract, unproportional. The idea is to look at the real objects and imagine what you can do to that or those objects making them look more interesting to a human eye.

Q: Hey Pete your artwork amazes me and I chose to do my art project on you and your art Im a freshman in highschool and it just so happens that my dads side of the family lives in Cleveland Ohio too. But one of the questions we have to answer about our artist in our project is what their birthplace Secondly have you recieved any awardsrecognitions Thirdly what are your favourite subjects to paint I hope you can help me thanks so much. yourartsamazing

A: Hi there thank you for your interest and your questions. I was born in Saint Petersburg Russia. Couple of my recognitions worth mentioning are the art competition: http://www.jerrysartarama.com/Galleries/Turner-Gallery.html as well as having one of my paintings featured on wine labels: http://pondviewwinery.com/wine/2010_Harmony_750_ml My favorite subject to paint is pure abstract paintings that are composed of different textures and tones of colors that I have created using variety of different materials and tools. One of those paintings name is Hottest Fire. Good luck to you with your school project my friend!

A: Hi Mathew, I began to paint because I always enjoyed it. My latest works are the paintings that you will see on my home page of my website the most recent work is closer to the top. As far as the paint, I use liquitex acrylic paint. Thank you for your questions!

A: Hi Emily, I have first began to paint at a very young age. My mother she is an art teacher and I got lots of inspiration from her. Thank you for your question!

Q: Hello Pete. First off I want to say your art is amazing and very inspiring to me. My main question is How do you show your painting as displayed in a living room or dining room like at the end of some of your videos What program do you use to do this and are there any tutorials that would help do that Thank you very much

A: Thank you for your nice comments! To be able to do the display as I did on my website you need to be able to know Adobe Photoshop or pay someone to do this for you. There are many tutorials that you can also purchase or get free online to understand how to work with Photoshop.

Q: Hi peter let me just say after watching your videos I am truly amazed. Im a better drawer than I am a painter but ive starting to paint for a short while and i want to get better. When you paint how do you get your ideas and when you use the bottles what do you put in the bottles just paint alone or do you mix it with something else

A: Hi Carolina, I usually come up with the idea to paint by deciding weather or not I want to create a subject in my paintings such as a tree, cityscape, landscape ... or just completely abstract elements. I use bottles to mix acrylic paint and water and that is it 60% paint and 30% water

Q: hey peter- first of all your work amazes me- and has inspired me a great deal- especially the videos and techniques- i am slowly learning to let myself go and follow where the painting takes me- this of course is alot harder to do than say- but i find it very relaxing- so to get around to my question- after about 7 yrs of slinging paint- i am getting alot of requests from friends and coworkers to paint them something and i enjoy the challenge - my question is this-- how do you go about pricing a particular piece since im new to all this- im honestly just trying to cover what monetary value i have invested- but then after seeing several artists work on line for sale- i wonder if i am selling myself short- any how- thanks for the inspiration- and your time- respects --- dave

A: Thank you Dave for your comments. The pricing is a difficult subject for me. The way I determine the price is by the material cost first, and than by the difficulty and the outcome of the composition.

Q: Hi peter just wanted to say that you are an amazing artist and you paintings are beautiful i love them all I also wanted to ask how you figure out what to paint in the background of your paintings because im doing a painting of flowers and i need some ideas on how to give the painting more texture in the background.

A: Thank you Isabel, I would first suggest to start experimenting by mixing paint together on a canvas using variety of tools (i.e. spatula, sponge, brushes ...). You can also try to experiment with different gels and mediums that is available to you in your local art supply store such as flow aid, glass beads, flakes to name a few.

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Q: Hi Peter Nice new paints you got out recently. As I started trying to paint recently one of the technique I wish I could learn the most is when you blend colors with your sponge the finish you get with it is incredible. Do you put pressure on it or do you get close enough just to say you touch it I dont know if its my type of paint bought the average quality since Im beginning or how I handle the sponge but I cant get paints to blend together they do mix sometimes but by spot only and my biggest problem is that the sponge often gets the paint off the canva when i use it and its a little wet. I can blend color but itll go from dark blue to white directly without a good transition since it takes off most of the paint and the transition is like 2mm between colors . Also I tried with the canva a little wet more wet and ... did a lot of experience. Thanks for your help and continue your impressive work I envy when you blend 2-3 color where there is a good thickness of paint and that the result is amazing Mickael

A: Hi Mickael, thank you for your comments and your question. I would suggest you try quality acrylic paint such as "Golden Acrylics" and see if that helps you in any way,

Q: Hi Peter to start with i must say Im really impressed at how nice your abstract paintings ends in. Ive never wanted to paint before since I though and I know that I have poor skill in actually drawing detailed things. Seeing the way you paint and techniques you use got me so excited that I bought stuff the day after I saw your paintings and today I actually tried doing something similar to your Three Islands painting. The result is awesome for a first try and I must thank you for this. Also if you dont mind answering me I looked trough all the QA trying to find more about how u use your sponge for blending. I found it hard to get a good grading between colors as my paint would get on the sponge and spread on the painting more randomly then I thought thought it would gradually absorb the paint and make the gradient. I know the sponge should be wet but do you wring it out totally dip the tip before so few water drops falls on the paint Well I thank you again for giving me this will of painting just before Christmas and I wish you a good Holiday Season with your family and friends. I already cant wait to be back from my vacation to look at more of your videos : Thx again Mike

A: Thank you Mike for your nice comment and your question. I use my sponge in different situation in a different kind of way. For instance if I need to remove some of the access paint I obviously rinse the sponge and make sure it is clean, in a situation where I blend the paint I do wring it out completely and begin dabbing on the canvas with it creating smooth transition. I hope I answered your question. Thank you again and Mary Christmas to you and your family!

Q: Hi Peter how do I keep the acryllics moist enough to work with on canvas as I live in a hot windy and dry region of Australia Also may I ask if you dilute your paint before putting on canvas. Perhaps you use a flow or retarder medium I truly admire your work and your talent. Thank you for sharing with your free videos. Best wishes from beautiful Kalbarri Western Australia. Chris

A: You can use any regular sponge that you can find. For best results to achieving a smoother color blending transition try to use the sponge that is composed of smaller grains.

Q: Hi Peter I watched several of your videos and inspired through your art and technique I made a couple of paintings. Of course they are wayyy not as good as yours but Im quite happy with what I have created in the beginning. Nevertheless one of them is still too clean too structured.. and I have no idea what I could do to make it better - and what would ruin the whole thing. If Id mail you a picture could you maybe give me a hint or an idea what I could try in order to make the painting better That would be so great All the best Yve

Q: How do you do it? I mean, do you just paint something spontaneously or do you have something in mind before you start? Because I love to paint, but I feel like I need to know what to paint before I start.

A: Honestly to say in most cases I just begin to paint with blank mind and come﻿ up with something as I go along. Thank you for asking :)

Abstract Art is Complex to Explain Discussion Forum

For me, a big realization came when I saw that every image was the result of editing. A landscape or portrait or madonna and child- all edited out from a larger "picture" or arena.

A close look at a Franz Kline painting is a revelation of skill and this idea of editing and adjusting.

The reason I'm fascinated by this is that it seems to drive us to getting an essence into the material image that has no substance. It's like trying to capture the immense forces that created the hills in a landscape by rendering the hills as result of those forces instead of getting the contours visually right.

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Joel Kahn • Check the links on my profile to see examples of my algorithmic math-based output. How do you think my work fits with these ideas about abstraction?

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Peggy Kerwan • Thanks for all of this input. As a fairly new artist (6 years) who loves color, movement, texture, I paint mainly whimsical interpretations (all subjects and mediums). I share my art and others' art with many non-artist friends, several of whom struggle to "get it" when it comes to abstraction. I must say I'm not great at "explaining" it. Your comments have made me feel better able to do so. I especially like your comment, Hufreesh, and can't wait to share the slap with my buddies.

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Catherine "Cathy" Shapiro • i'm a wordsmith too, so I love Stephen's commentary. Abstraction is like love ....and that's just as complex! Art itself is akin to the act of catching lightning in a bottle; You can't do that no matter how hard you try. :)

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Chris Myers • I could not find a way to edit a previous post with a URL that I will stop using, so that post is now gone. I am switching over to http://cribet.zenfolio.com for open edition artwork. I did not delete the post because this was not an interesting discussion! I find it very hard to classify a lot of my work and end up calling it abstract, but I do not really know if this is accurate or not. The question of what is abstract and what is not is always on my mind.

I guess I can define a couple things that help me decide if I should tag an image abstract. These are hardly definitions for abstract across all media, but they help. For my own works if their content is no longer clearly derived from the actual physical subject of the photograph and becomes more an expression of form or a fundamental geometric shape, then I call them abstract. I am less certain if there are those same forms and geometric shapes in the art, but the content is clear. My gut says that if mentally my imagination gets stirred up and I see other worlds and stories in images, then they are abstract. I do see the same sometimes in the oak tree portraits or fungi work that I do as well, but that is on a different level.

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Jill Campbell • For me it is always important to try to keep some sort of connection or truth to the original subject - so it is often about trying to find some kind of balance between representation and abstraction. My aim is to develop a pictorial language which will enable me to make visible my own experience of being in the world in a way that has a universal sense and so can be communicated to others. Removing any obvious references to observed subject matter mean the paintings do not operate as windows.They become painted surfaces built with marks and colour that represent my personal expression of the relationship between self and the world.

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Stephanie Smith • It's great to see all of these comments! I recently participated in an abstract exhibit, where the curators asked us all to write a description of why/what/how we perceive abstract art - I'll start with my own writing, and if there's some interest, I'll keep adding other writings from the other artists. Just like this discussion, they ideas that have been flowing down from this one exhibit are eloquent and thought provoking.

The artists of the Renaissance did not invent human anatomy, but made strides to understand it by looking to and reflecting on information outside of what convention allowed. Similarly, abstract art is not a step out of reality, but rather a step into a greater reality. Creating and studying abstract works, is what examining a new species of exotic flower, excavating for ancient fossils, or mapping the inner apparatus of the human body is. Sometimes these acts are not so much beautiful as odd, or even gruesome; our imagination never truly anticipating their fragile existence. Yet, when our eyes fall upon them, their untamed presence provides a mind-altering experience. Observing their form, color, and behavior, augments our perspective of the natural world. Artists have long owned the resourcefulness to bring to forefront, forgotten, or veiled certainties - by providing intimate reports on compelling, but pre-existing realities.

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Jeffery Rowe • I believe art and the process of making art are the cultural DNA that makes us who and what we are, as individuals, a community and a society. While there are many endeavors that are rooted in creativity, to be considered "art" I feel the work has to speak to the audience in an intimate and primal way, if not it becomes just decorative. I am interested in exploring the notion of chaos and order and their relationship. That is why I introduce pseudo-geometric forms and lines in my work. My primary goal is to get the audience to think, and consider something they may not have considered. I occasionally try to provoke the thinking/questioning process with titles that may not be obvious choices. I also use hints of representational and symbolic elements in primarily non-representational pieces in an effort to challenge notions of reality. I tend to think that we compartmentalize our worlds into easily digestible boxes and by doing so edit out essential elements of the things we are boxing up. Once this is done we tend to believe these are absolute truths without further consideration. I hope to stimulate people into reconsidering these "truths". The world was flat and then it was round and now it is flat again. Art is a gift that allows us to accept these inconsistencies because our human realities are primarily a function of our perspective. Art aids and alters that perspective. I do not possess the arrogance to think I can necessarily alter that "reality" but , I may be able to influence the perspectives.

I consider all creation to bea na abstraction. I strive to let intuition and emotion flow into form when I paint. Defined images may appear although the whole comes from subconscious layers and raw emotion. The moment weh our inner cauldrons boil over and we leap into the void is already unique. We all relate to the sensations of being human, raw passion, loss gain, hoy...but this blank canvas underneath, the familiar human emptiness that arouses us to action because the only other option is death by statsis. This provokes me.

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Tony Reynolds • At one point in my scattered art education I heard or read that abstract art, perhaps it was more modern painting, was an attempt to create a new thing, a real object, not seen before. The painting was not to be understood as a window representing anything else (reality, emotion, etc) but rather that it was a thing of its own identity. Does this ring true?

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Conn Ryder • Eegads ! To whom is it necessary that we provide this one all-encompassing definition of abstract art???? What an ominous task . . . . .tackled by a myriad of artists that have come before us . . . .and still no universal concurrence (that I’m aware of, anyway). It seems to me that the term “abstract” is/was to art, what “alternative” is/was to music (although even more wide-ranging). And under that umbrella term resides countless theorized sub-classifications to further describe the innumerable approaches to art (and the outcomes thereof) that fall under the canopy of “abstract.”

While it’s fun and thought-provoking to toss about various notions for the sake of discussion, for me personally, I don’t feel the necessity to do anything other than attempt to communicate the whats, whys and hows of my own work . . . and only then to those who are inquiring. (If someone told me it was their duty to educate me on the sport of boxing so that I might understand and appreciate it, I’d tell them to sod off because I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant!)

So for those who inquired, I would say my approach is to attempt to know my craft (see a great description from Brian Sommers above), know my materials . . . toss it in a pot (me . . .the vessel) . . . . .stir in a healthy dollop of emotion, a pinch of experiential and observational impact . . . . . and hope it manifests on canvas as something that resonates with me . . . . .and ideally, with someone else too.

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Tony Reynolds • @Conn Ryder. I think the bigger purpose of this discussion is to explain what abstract art is to ourselves. Art (at least to me) is visceral but it is also cognitive at least at some level. The more we understand what we are involved in the more deeply we can engage.

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Conn Ryder • @Tony Reynolds -- Thank you for sharing your understanding of the purpose of this discussion with me. My comment was in response to Pete's initial statement in which he writes that abstract art will mystify some "therefore, it is necessary to define it, so that the viewer may decide for himself what is real and true." So I was addressing the notion of defining abstract art for the "viewer", and would reiterate my personal opinion that the whole of the term "abstract art" is too sweeping (or as Pete wrote "complex"). Therefore, while I understand artists enjoying a discussion about defining abstract art, when it comes to the viewer, I generally only strive to explain my own art to those with an open ear. Now, if someone said to me "I don't understand abstract art" and I found the person open to learning more about it, then certainly I'd attempt to share some explanation (even though I would have to clarify that artists' approaches, intent, message, etc. are as unique as snowflakes). But if a person said "I don't like abstract art" and I didn't sense they were open for it, I wouldn't personally feel it is necessary to change (or expand) their thinking). http://www.connryder.com

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Lorraine Fossi • My work fluctuates between Abstraction and Landscape. I explain: Landscapes have always given us the freedom to enjoy dreamlike sequences back into the so-called real world. Abstract works are the tangible way to express the unreal. And they do so while awakening our consciousness; revealing the hidden by dismantling our own conventional and distorted views.

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Sue Berce • I am a docent at Milwaukee Art Museum ( MAM) and give a ton of tours. I take everyone to the Contemporary Galleries first and have some standard thoughts...if you can say, "I don't get it, I could do it myself...it's about something!"

Motion and emotion...that's me in my work.

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Herbert Murrie • When I'm asked, what is that or what are you trying to say, My pat answer is, look at it like you would look at a landscape. Does it move you, do you see something beautiful or ugly, is there any emotion that you feel when you look at this painting. I do and that's why it 's here for you to look at. Music is related to abstract in that you feel something, good bad or indifferent when you here it.

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Peter Dranitsin • Thank you everyone for such a great participation in this discussion about Abstract Art. I am really interested in reading your thoughts on this subject matter!

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Liz Doyle • mmmmmmmmmm thought provoking

I tried to start adiscussion just now on similar lines (does it have to be pretty / balanced...) but got bogged down in a technical glitch with adding a link - oh well - I'm just learning here

Thanks for this discussion

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Artist Arnold McDowell • Abstract is " ABSTRACT " it all come from A Old Man like Me = " Ab " was His Name and He Stract His Art Burch that had paint on it on A Painting that He Just Painted; it was A Landscape; So he "Stract" it Some More and said to His Sefl; " The Painting Looks A Lot Better; So what can I Name this New Painting ? He was Painting Out Side and went it His House; And Ask His Wife; She said I Like it too " Ab " so you just " Stract " it with Your paint Burch; YES; and She said Well Lets Call Your NEW Painting " Ab-Stract ".... " Ab " ; Was My " Great, Great, Great, Great "Grand-Pal" from The Appalachian Mountains; So thats how " ABSTRACT " got it Name; And She Help Name " The Great Smoky Mountains " Too; Artist Arnold McDowell at www.arnoldmcdowellart.com I LOVE to Paint and I like to Paint " Abstract Art " ; It is in A World of Art By its " Self " thanks Arnold.

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Sue Berce • Here's the thing with me....in five years...four major surgeries, husband died, cancer, I almost died twice in 2011...no art training, but art spewed forth, first a tad realistic..then with every series of ten to twelve my head shifted...abstraction becomes real then disappears until it resurfaces...we have no control, really.

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Diane Mignon Morgan • The term "abstract art" is a generic term for anything that does not equate to realism. Historically abstract artists concentrated on an "aspect" that they wanted to convey in a painting or sculpture that was not possible with realism. I think with most of us today it is our own personal perception of a particular environment or feeling that brings us to exaggerate colors, overstate lines and forms to evoke our "own" personal emotion into the painting. If you explain this to people looking at your art they will be able to grasp it better. When someone is looking at one of my paintings I always ask them "How does this painting make you feel?" Abstract art may be complicated in form or execution but it does not have to be hard to understand. It is just an expression of the artist albeit overstated at times.

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Bryan Azevedo • when i get approached and some one tells me to define my art work i usually reply "there is nothing to explain". i feel the emotions people feel out of seeing my work in person is park of the magic in it. i mostly play with light, color and texture, but then again who doesn't....my works are based mostly on past emotions and experiences, and to have other find their own emotions in my work makes it all worth it to me.

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Artist Arnold McDowell • I Love " Abstract Art " and To Us Mountain People in East Tennessee; its NOT to Complex to Explain; When " Ab " My Great Grand Pal; painted The First One; He said I Like it; Its Like " Chicken Soup " The More I Put in it The Better it Looks; I am just A Old Painter; That Likes To Help All The Young Artist get all the Help thay Need To be A Good Artist; You-al can See My New; Abstract Painting Name of it is " Four Grasshopper's Singing to the Moon " at www.arnoldmcdowellart.com Abstract Art is ABSTRACT; Lets All injoy it and Eat More " Chicken Soup " as We Paint it; thanks Artist Arnold McDowell.

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Brad Cole • I think trying to explain Abstract Art as an entire discipline is more complicated than an Artist explaining the motives and choices made concerning their own work. I think an Artists intentions are the key factor when we describe to our viewers what Abstract Art is. For instance my motives are to challenge the human tendency to want to classify, and "put things in a box" even though my work is based 90% on primal instinct. Others motives might be to translate the idea of smell through visual stimulus. I think that because people are so determined to put everything into a category it's difficult for many to grasp the idea that Abstract art is most often manifested by creating through an individual Artists personal lens. So many interpretations and only one category - Abstract Art hah!

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Ursula E. Rettich • I do not agree with Bryan, Quote " there is nothing to explain" There is so much to explain - only words are not enough, that is why we paint in abstract, we see so much more then what everyone else is seeing, so we artists try to bring it out in and an "abstract" way. Not the incidental way of poring paint and see what comes out - no, we struggle and go beyond to try to explain what we see and feel in colour and shape and emotion

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Bryan Azevedo • Ursula - i think you need to reread my comment. I personally let the viewer's imagination take the course it wants on it's own instead of directing them in the way i think it should go. And to be completely honest, I never struggle with paintings, they come naturally to me (i'm blessed for this). I just prefer to have people see my works and go on their own voyage. I like to think of it as I build the land and you are your own tour guide.

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Tools for Abstract Painting

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Floorcloth for Painting

The ultimate in durable, washable, and stain-resistant floor coverings, the canvas floorcloth has been making a comeback. While the most common way to prepare a canvas surface for painting is to use an acrylic gesso, a semi-gloss or matte polymer medium can also be used to seal the surface. Please note that floorcloths, like table runners and mats, are made to be flexible. For this reason, I advice strongly against using a white housepaint primer, as it is made to be used on rigid surfaces and lacks the flexibility found in artist acrylic grounds.

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Composition in Abstract Painting

Composition in abstract painting can be tricky if the shape is in the wrong place. There is no content to distract the viewer. However, often representational painters will cause an unimportant object in, say, a still life to assume too much importance by placing it in an awkward position, using a jarring color,m or giving it too much pattern or texture. This will distract the viewer from the intended focal point. Imagine a serene still life of roses with a carefully rendered can opener in one corner of the painting. Make sure your "can opener" is your intention.

Using paper to create an abstract texture

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Encaustic Painting

Encaustic painting is a technique of heating a mixture of beeswax and dammar resin, and applying it to a hard, porous surface, such as wood or ceramic. Paper and card can also be used as supports. To create paint, powdered pigments or a small amount of oil paint can be added to the beeswax medium. Some companies, like R&F Encaustics in the United States, sell encaustic paint in the convenient form of small blocks.

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Using plastic to create texture for your abstract painting

Another way to achieve a beautiful background is to utilize plastic to create an interesting background when creating your abstract painting

Materials for Creating Texture for Abstract Painting

It is important to recognize that textures form a vital part of the composition. The more prominent the texture, the more likely it will become either a focal point or a distraction. The addition of texture to plain painted area on a canvas can bring it dramatically to life, but it also needs to be integrated into the composition as a whole. There are many ways to do this, depending on the nature of the collage material.

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IMPACT OF CONTRAST IN PAINTING

the helicopter takes off, giving the tourists a bird's eye view of a breath taking cityscape. The passengers can soon see the rectangular grid system formed by the avenues and streets. But look, over there is a curve of on e of the main street, winding its way in stark contrast to the right angels. Suddenly there is an enormous green area of central park. The city comes alive, with the contrasts keeping at bay the monotonous uniformity that you might otherwise see from air. It is the same in visual communication, where contrasts in size, strength, shape an color can make for dynamic and exciting design.

Using pallate knife to create an amazing background

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Focal point in an abstract painting

When you are working on acrylic abstract painting think about the focal point in your painting. Human eye is drawn to a particular feature, because it dominates in some way . It may be one of the following characteristics:

- the largest shape

- the brightest (and most highly saturated) color

- the most or least textured area

- the area with the strongest value (light versus dark) contrast

- the only cool color among the hot ones and vs vs

- the only hard-edged shape

Acrylic Techniques

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Inclined Planes In Perspective

Inclined planes in perspective are neither parallel to the ground plane nor perpendicular, and so the rules that govern the construction of vertical and horizontal planes do not fully apply to inclined planes. Inclined planes are tilted in space, angling up or down as they recede in space. Some examples of inclined planes include rooftops at various pitches, wheelchair ramps, box flaps, in variety of positions, and stairways, which are essentially a series of small vertical and horizontal planes that fall within a larger inclined plane.

Mixed Media Artwork

Mixed media artwork bridges the gap between fine art and fine craft. Acrylics are at their most useful, as a ground for other materials and as a glue that makes oil, solvent, and water based mediums compatible with each other. Acrylic paints are your passport to the improvisation party. They provide a perfect opportunity to explore new creative territory and diversify your style. Hearing all the hype, it may seem that acrylics are the invisible omni-paints, but as with all things, they are some boundaries that are prudent to observe.

Line Variation in Figure Drawing

The human form provides a particularly rich opportunity to explore the relation ship between line and edge and the power of line to convey tremendous nuance and subtlety or extreme power and forcefulness while addressing the physical aspects of volume, mass, movement, weight, gesture, dimension, and space.

Abstract Paintings using Glazing and Fluids

Abstract Paintings made with Glazing and Fluids are attractive and different. First, because acrylic paint can be mixed with many products, this encourages a great deal of experimentation. Second, when applied in unconventional ways, the results are far from the typical stereotypes and thus more creative.

Theory behind Creativity and Brainwork

Creativity is often a misused word. It is applied to practically anything to do with ideas and working on them. Creating an amazing abstract paintings would be on the top list of creative things to do. Creativity is derived from the Latin "creare". As far as brainwork - it does not really differ very much from muscle work. The brain is also a muscle, which has to be trained if we are not to lose our mental and creative flexibility. We train our brains every hour of every day, and it all starts back in that first year of life, when we get to grips with a succession of new challenges, from climbing on tables of knocking over vases and eating felt-tips. Most people would agree that creativity is all about bringing things together and combining things that do not really belong together in a different and unexpected ways to create something new and exiting. This is why it is important to think laterally. This kind of thinking gets creators to leave the well-trodden path and break new ground. You have to go that way when everyone else is saying "this way".

Good ideas and thoughts characteristics

The following characteristics underline good ideas and thoughts:

1. they create immediate attention

2. they produce an 'a-ha' experience

3. they create emotions such as joy, fear, longing and sympathy

3. they look simple and clear

4. they can be developed and used again and again

Color Psychology

With color comes a variety of psychological messages that can be used to influence content for both imagery and the verbal meaning of typography. This emotional component of color is deeply connected to human experience at an instinctual and biological level. Colors of varying wavelength have different effects on the autonomic nervous system - warmer colors, such as red and yellows, have long wavelengths, and so more energy is needed to process them as they enter the eye and brain.

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Using Masking Tape for your Abstract Art Painting

This is the simplest of techniques you can employ to create beautiful abstract painting techniques. Take a white and blank canvas and cover it with a masking tape in some pattern or grid. You just need to ensure that the tape is pressed down firmly. Now paint the whole canvas using a single or more colors as you like it. Now remove the masking tape and you will get a very interesting results that will add to your abstract painting. You can use this method to create an eye catching backgrounds.

Make your Own Rules

There are no hard and fast rules for abstract painting. On the other hand, creating a rule or formula yourself and painting accordingly can bring rich dividends for you. The formula offers you a guide or framework to work within. Working according to a certain formula will help you to construct your composition perfectly or restrict the number of colours you use helping you to obtain wonderful results.

Choosing between Oil and Acrylic Paints or mix them up

Before starting to paint abstract, you should choose between acrylic and oil paints. The earlier are odorless, they can be painted over in the case of any mistake and dry very quickly. The oil paints are the complete opposite to the acrylics. They have odor, take very long to dry and there is no remedy if you commit a mistake. With all that being mentioned, I would also encourage you to experiment and mix the two mediums together to see what kind of a result you can get from it.

Free Art Video on How to work with Acrylic Mediums

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Pair Swatch Colours

One of the best sources of inspiration for the colour palette is the paint swatches available at local paint stores. They allow you to try out different patches adjacent to each other and most importantly in variety of combinations. You also do not have to undo a single tube in order to make your painting livelier.

Colours from the Landscape

·Getting inspiration from colours of surrounding landscape for your abstract painting is a sensational idea as the nature never gets it wrong. In fact, the major part of the problems about your painting is resolved immediately if you get the colours complementing each other quite nicely.Painting colours in their full brightness and straight from the tube is the most common mistake committed by painters. You have to thoroughly think out the colour palette while considering the colours you should use.

Take Inspiration from a Story or Poem

Choose a poem or recall a favourite story and tune into the emotions created by them. Use these emotions to stimulate your imaginations and give clear vent to your ideas. You should not try to tell the story because you are painting abstract. On the contrary, concentrate on your responses and feelings and inspire yourself with textures, colours and paints.

Splatter Painting

Splatter painting is another brilliant technique to create great abstract paintings. However, the technique requires greater well protected working area. Just take a canvas and drench your brush with paint and shake it over the canvas. Depending upon the force applied by your wrist, the direction of the shake and amount of the paint, different shapes and patterns will appear on the canvas.

Paint with Long Stick

·Most of the people get it wrong when the fall in the trap of thinking too much about the details of abstract painting. The painting can actually become lifeless if you concentrate on fine details and miss the more expensive, freer strokes during the process. The best method to overcome this problem is to use a long stick and exercise less control. This way, you will work freely and you will bring variety and charm in your painting.

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Straw Painting

You can create an exceptionally intriguing abstract painting by using a glass dropper to put some multi-coloured blobs on a paper or canvas. For that matter, you should use acrylic or poster paint diluted in water. Take a drinking straw and blow through it to disperse the paint unequally on the surface and also turn the page to change the direction in order to make different patterns and shapes by mixing the paint. This type of abstract painting is fun for both children and adult.

Digital Abstract College

You can also use differently sized and multicolour cut outs of bright cards and papers to create a totally unique and enticing abstract college on white paper. You can even scan the college to create a normal image with lines and colours. You can achieve the final print by enlarging and enhancing the image using software like Photoshop.

Framework for your painting process

Visual communication demands a very special form of creativity known as framework creativity. You still have to come up with messes of ideas on the right subject, but you have to do it within the parameters of a particular framework. You can't give your imagination free rein and soar off into flights of fancy all of your own, as that will only confuse the viewers

How Colors Effect Acrylic Abstract Painting

We cannot deny the fact that colors play a really vital part in our day to day life. Any color can fix our bad mood where as there are colors that hurt our eyes and disturb us. The environment we are surrounded by effect us mainly by the colors it is made up of. The same rule applies for abstract art paintings. When we look at certain paintings we are moved by its intensity or touched by its positivity our soothed by its calmness. It is all because of the inter woven colors that deeply effect us. Here are some reasons for how different colors effect your acrylic abstract painting.

Colors communicate invisibly. There are certain feelings that a particular color can generate. Yellow color can generate a warmth and happiness in you. Blue is a color which is very deep, peaceful and supernatural. Green color provides you a comfort, peace and stillness. Black color is just too mystical and consuming. Red color fills you with liveliness and confidence. Whereas, white color is so tranquil and gives you a feeling of rest even at the sight of it. So the next time you are standing in front of an abstract painting, notice the particular emotions a specific color is generating, and you will be baffled to know how truly does it work.

The contrast of colors is what makes an abstract painting all the more special. Our eyes love to see contrast, it is how it observes every possible thing in the world. It gives us the ability to differentiate and transit between different elements of a painting. But let us not keep aside the power of greyscale and monotony. When you paint something in colors it is like depicting a person's cloth, but when you paint something in black and white you portray their souls.

Not just the color but its intensity also has a lot to do with your abstract painting. The more intense you feel a color is, the more deeply it empathize with you. It is said that the way to artist's heart go through his palette. So just have a look at all the abstract paintings you ever worked on, try to seek similar traits and you will be amazed to find how you overlooked your own self; reflected through the colors of the abstract paintings.

As an artist you will find yourself drawn towards a particular color. So feel free to use that particular color lavishly in your painting, because that color will represent 'Who you are' and 'What your abstract painting means' in the best possible way. You can be the one who has a thing for subtle colors because it is a choice that comes from inside you. If you use just bright colors than it can be because you cannot contain your sunny side. Don't suppress your inclination and force yourself to pick colors. Accept your color choices and let them lead you.

Above all, painting abstract gives you the liberty to color the sky red and paint the grass blue. No one can stop you from using a color against their established identity. Abstract artists use colors to paint their own wold, they cannot contain themselves in a world that limits them.

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ABSTRACT ART IS COMPLEX TO EXPLAIN

Abstract art will delight some and mystify others; therefore, it is necessary to define it, so that the viewer may decide for himself what is real and true. Abstract art springs from many sources, from the roots of Art Nouveau with its curlicues and swirls of industrial designer-type art and Cubism, that jagged sense of geometry imposing its will upon the natural world so that few can understand it, though many would discern in the angular line of a cityscape, for instance. But abstract art? From its beginnings in the breakaway schools of Impressionism and Picasso’s beginnings at the turn of the 20th century, abstract art departs from reality. This is strange for artists coming from a traditional school, with its emphasis on being true to reality and using the tools of the lines of perspective and the color wheel. Abstract art uses form and line and color to depict a subject abstractly, that is, its basis and not the uttermost detail of the artist’s view.

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Fred Maulucci • Peter, I would agree with you that abstract art depict a basis of view and is complex to explain. My understanding of best abstract art is that it is the craft, and ultimately the art, of abstraction. Most abstract artists and critics that I have read state that this basis has little to do with a "visual point of view", much to do with a conceptual view (philisophical, religeous, social), and thus everything to do with reality.

My enterpretation of artists own words is that abstraction comes in attempting to analyze a reality, stripping it of every extraneous concept that can lead a viewer to stray from the experience he/she is presenting, and using the technique the artist best has control over to express that reality which we can mutually experience. With Hofmann it's color, Pollock has texture, Kline has contrast. This is of course a grave oversimplification of these great artists skills, but I think, a valid connotation of their aim.

This is what I aim to do as I study these artists work and peer through the lense finder; to discover what it is in front of me ( the reality of it, not an illusion of construct or what some advertizing firm wants me to see) that makes me feel alive and strip away the multitude of icons we identify with subliminally each moment. To see a bit of reality in a pure and novel way.

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Hufreesh Dumasia • I agree with both Peter and Fred. But this is what I recently wrote to someone who wanted to "understand" my Abstract art.

" Hi Sia, I am glad that you asked that question. Recently, when I had a computer problem, I went to see my geek friend. Initially, what he said to me sounded like Greek and Latin, till I asked him to break it down for me. That’s when it struck me, that what I take for granted in my Art, may not be clear to many people. So, let try and clear it for you and for many others I know who have asked me the same question..

I am now going to give you a set of instructions that you need to follow to the letter. Take a deep long slow breath and as you breathe out give yourself a tight slap! Ouch! Just kidding! But this is the fastest way of getting rid of all the thoughts from your mind. 

My point is, when you are in front of an Abstract painting you need to leave your mind at the doorsteps. Because the mind likes to put everything in a box, it likes to figure out everything. If there is a form, a figure or landscape it has no problem. This it is familiar with, this it knows. But in Abstract painting, it stands in front of the ‘Unknown”. And it is stumped. It says, “What the hell is this? It looks like the doodling of a child.” That is exactly what it is- doodling of a child. Like Pablo Picasso said it, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” The young child is still very much in contact with the “Unknown”. His/her mind isn’t sufficiently developed to interfere. So leave the mind out and enter into the world of no mind. Just keep looking at the painting and enjoy the play of colors and forms without wanting to label them. Take your time. Just be there with it and slowly the whole painting will open up to you. That’s when the magic happens…Suddenly you start seeing things that you hadn’t seen before in the painting and a strange feeling overcomes you…depending on the painting, it can range from a sad sweetness to euphoria. The veil is broken and the “Unknown” is Known.

Fred Ruckdeschel • "being true to reality and using the tools of the lines of perspective", that's a common sense most of us have. But in reality, do train tracks come together? Is the part of a cube building taller where it is closest to us?

From another point of view, is everything in focus as we look at something -- the surroundings, what's behind what we are focused on, what's in front?

For example, a Cezanne painting I saw at a show at the National Gallery of Art had a man sitting in a chair. The arm of the stuffed chair was almost a blob of paint. I thought about it and realized that's what the arm would look like were I focused on the man, who in the painting was well defined.

I take non-representational abstract art for granted. It is there. Do I want to look at it? Elsworth Kelly, Mondrian, drip paintings, etc. Looking a Kelly's art often gives me a bodily sensation owing to MY sense of its -- I suppose -- its perfection.

Art that is abstracted from some object -- real or imaginary -- or from a scene presumably has a representational origin in reality or imagination, which may or may not be discernible to the viewer.

Most of my art begins with no sense or vision of the representational -- real or imaginary. Only occasionally do I have a sense of a topic or message or emotion. Most of the time I am interested in creating a visual impact and use the elements and principles of design to achieve that visual impact. Often not following a principle is important. Or sometimes I play one principle against another, which helps create the impact.

Art does not have to be one thing or the other. It can be both. I like to think of complimentary opposites.

In addition to what I am doing, what the viewer does is "the other side of the coin".

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Dominique DUMONT • Abstraction has started long time ago with the opposition of light and darkness, through the movement of "clair obscur" , the definition of the principal colors you can find in the paintings of Vermeer, then with the dissolution of the light with the impressionists.

Abstract art is rich when there is a good balance between the evidence of emptiness with the need of fullness. It is quite interesting when colors replace words.

But I have a question open to anyone, what makes an abstraction rich of colors or strong and so well that we go for it?

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Brian Sommers • sorry folks but I will disagree.. abstract art in and of itself is very simple:

it is just simply taking the elements of art (line, hue, value, texture, shape, size, etc) along with the design principles (balance, repetition, contrast, harmony, dominance, unity) to create an interesting layout (or better known as composition)

that is all there is to it..

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Stephen Carpenter • That, and each artist with a particular "vocabulary" of processes and a unique fingerprint of image. (response to Brian Sommers)

As an artist teaching art history on occasion to non-art majors, I spend a lot of time getting at the process of making images. It all starts with the elements and principles because our brains are always seeking pattern and order. The neat thing is that artist and viewer are using the same processing and terms when the viewer stops for a minute.

Hue Relationships

Designers can create interaction between different hues, independent of their saturation or value, according to where they lie on the color wheel. The closer together the color appear on the wheel, the more similar their optical qualities and, hence, the more harmonious or related. The further apart colors are on the wheel, the more their optical qualities contrast.

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